How is everyone feeling?

[CheltMum13]

Were any of them wearing hats

[StJamesDad]

Personally if I put my DC into private primary to gain an unfair advantage into money saving Grammar school..........................I would keep a low profile

[ToadMum]

The mind boggles as to why private school kids would come in uniform

Were any of them wearing hats

- so it's not just an Essex phenomenon. Apparently it's because they find uniform more comfortable than 'home clothes' to do academic work in, the schools don't tell them that they are expected to at all. DS2
(state primary, a bit of practice at home) and I had visions of them spending all the summer in uniform at their tutor's and mock exams...

[littlebaker]

Maybe the fees are so crippling they have no other clothes

[swoops]

The mind boggles as to why private school kids would come in uniform

Personally if I put my DC into private primary to gain an unfair advantage into money saving Grammar school..........................I would keep a low profile

Mayhaps the man protests too much !

[StJamesDad]

Sorry Did I hit a nerve perchance?

[swoops]

Sorry Did I his a nerve perchance?

I just think it's an unfair game to play when these parents have absolutely no intention of sending their DC's to GS

[StJamesDad]

Is that why they wear their uniform then?
As a sign that they are just using the test to get cheaper fees?

[stroudydad]

Or perhaps it is simply that they had come from school to do the test, or had to go to school after?? It's not an uncommon thing to see children in school uniform around stroud on a Saturday.

[StJamesDad]

Thanks SD. I am going with that theory then, as it's the least painful